Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] [adj] [vb pp] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My wife and I were both brought up Methodists . ’ |
| 2 | A couple of days later I was that fed up I got myself in trouble . |
| 3 | I was real made up ! |
| 4 | It 's almost 17 years since I was last hauled up a mountainside with a metal bar across my bum , two poles in one hand and my arm around the anorak of an unknown Austrian whose only English was ‘ Bend ze knees ’ and ‘ Open ze legs ’ . |
| 5 | When you were all sent home early . |
| 6 | We could even get you both on , as if you were both tuned in by chance . |
| 7 | ‘ Poor Sooty was very unsociable when she was first brought here , ’ said house manager Jean Coleman . |
| 8 | There was one time she was all dressed up to go to town and I did n't know her because she had a hat on . |
| 9 | We were all flung on to the roof . |
| 10 | We were all roped together , so we got him out , but it was a close thing . |
| 11 | We were all fitted up . ’ |
| 12 | Because we g we g we were all separated then you know with different bedrooms . |
| 13 | We were all fatigued enough for the rail road from Southampton is new and rough . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Such an intensive subject assessment was stressful for the staff , ’ commented Fiona Baikie , ‘ but it helped that we were all assessed together , so no one subject or person was singled out . |
| 15 | We were all made very wary by this brush with authority and Frankie even refused to go out with Dad that night in case they were spotted by the parish man . |
| 16 | And as I say , in during the war years our rations , we were all treated so fairly at the Co-op I believe you know , we were really treated fairly . |
| 17 | We were all pressed back into our seats . |
| 18 | the apprentices in , in mill where we were , we were all bound together |
| 19 | When that happened we were all sent home early . |
| 20 | When we were all sat down and Mrs F was serving out the stew , I ignored Vern and decided to take the situation into my own hands . |
| 21 | There was a screech of brakes and then we were all thrown forward in the coach . |
| 22 | Bruin many years later became the CO of No 84 Squadron in Greece — that is before we were all thrown out by the Germans and , let me say at this stage , aided and abetted by a rather unmentionable faction of Greek insurgence . |
| 23 | The third one : once the buzz bombs started to come over it was at last realised that it was n't a very good idea to have children evacuated directly on the flight path between Germany and London , and we were all shipped off to other locations , myself to Teignmouth in Devon . |
| 24 | ‘ Rehearsal ceased , we were all bussed back to our schools and the music festival was cancelled for 1952 . ’ |
| 25 | But we were all kitted out in life jackets . |
| 26 | It was not to be , for although we were all keyed up like first violins , having heard Churchill 's great ‘ Their finest hour ’ speech on June 15th with les soldats Francaises listening as well , Whitehall had decided that better arrangements had to be made for children than care in one of the best London hospitals . |
| 27 | ‘ I think we were all wound up , ’ he said . |
| 28 | We were all burned out , exhausted by the battles and the fights within and outside our various movements . |
| 29 | We were all lined up on the field at Peobresanskoe … the Winter Palace . |
| 30 | We were all caught up in the shock and wondered what the significance was . |